VIETNAM NUTRITIONAL PORTAL
The study is to evaluate the effectiveness of vitamin A fortified cooking oil on nutritional status of children aged 3-5 years. A double-blind, randomized controlled trial was conducted among 304 children aged 3 to 5 years who were randomly assigned to the experimental and control group.
A cross-sectional and community trial among children 6-23 months of age were conducted from March to May 2007 in 4 communes, Yen The district, Bac Giang province. The finding showed that Prevalence of stunting was 35.9%, wasting was 20.1% and anemia was 55.6%.
Food consumption has been long found being closely related to community health. By comparing the food consumption patterns in Vietnam during the XX century (1940 - 2000) it is shown that there was no change in characteristics of Vietnamese food consumption pattern through different periods up to 1990. In general, it was a poor rice based diet with low intake of animal protein and fat.
Many kinds of rice, cassava and sweet potatoes spirits produced by Traditional Fermentation Methods have been carried out for a long time in Vietnam. This study aimed to evaluate some traditional methods and find the way to improve the quality of sweet potatoes spirits and reduce the harmful by- products such as Aldehydes, Methanol, Esters, etc. by choosing the best traditional yeast cakes, fermentation conditions and duration of maturation of distilled Spirits following the Vietnamese standards for spirits with higher content of alcohol.
To find an effective model for child malnutrition prevention interventions, the Nutrition Center HCM city has selected An Thoi Dong commune in Can Gio district, where the child underweight prevalence is high (11.1%) for development of the project “child malnutrition control model”. Objective: to evaluate the project’s effectiveness on child nutrition improvement through the interventions of communication and nutrition practices.
The study among 599 people including 295 men and 304 women from 24 to 74 years old at 4 old urban districts of Hanoi aimed to identify nutritional conditions, blood lipid indices and some factors associated with lipid disorder. The information on education levels, daily activities, and eating and drinking habits was collected by a questionnaire.
The dissociation constant is commonly used to describe the affinity between a protein and a ligand. In this study, the dissociation constant of aptamer-IgE complex was accurately determined to be 59.6 ± 20.5 nM and 91.8 ± 10.3 nM using fluorescence anisotropy and capillary electrophoresis respectively. The results of this study open up possibilities to develop the aptamer-based biossay for detection of IgE levels in blood serum, which is very useful for allergy diagnostics.
The progress of malnutrition reduction and the Zscores W/A, Zscores H/A and Zscores W/H was examined through national surveys on malnutrition among children under 5 years old from 1990 to 2004. Objective: To present the progress of child malnutrition in order to classify changes and to set up suitable outcome for the plan of child malnutrition control.
Trend of physical status of children and adolescents in HCMC were reviewed from epidemiological nutrition surveys in HCMC during 1999 –2005. From 1999 to 2005, height and weight of boys at the age 1-3ys in HCMC increased by 1.6 –2.2cm and 0.6 – 1.4kg, respectively.
In this study was conducted in 32 patients, from 15 - 78 years old, who were tube fed with a large ration of eggs (284gr/day in average). The results showed that eggs do not make plasma cholesterol concentration as well as triglyceride concentration increase. Cholesterol concentration at prefeeding was 3.70 ± 0.72, and it was 4.11 ± 1.07 after feeding (p > 0.05).
Improper feeding for patients can lead to the reduction of body response to medicines, can prolong the duration of staying in hospital and can increase hospital malnutrition prevalence. The study aimed to assess actual dietary intake of children having diarrhea and respiratory infection and to identify related factors.
A cross-sectional study was carried out on children from 6 to 23 months old in 3 rural communes, Cam khe District, Phu Tho province in 2006. The findings showed that malnutrition rates were 24.4 %( W/A), 20.6% (H/A), and 2.4 %( W/H).
Across- sectional study was done in 2005 to identify hypertension prevalence in adults living in Daklak province. Total of 931 adults aged from 25 years and over, without other chronic diseases in 30 communes were chosen and checked-up. The results showed that the crude hypertension prevalence in Daklak province was 17.5%.
Objective: This study was to identify the prevalence of malnutrition in patients admitted to gastroenterology and endocrinology ward in Bach mai hospital. Methods: 308 patients admitted to a gastroenterology and endocrinology ward were enrolled in the investigation.
Seventeen different kinds of amino acids were quantified in a study, using high performance liquid chromatography method (HPLC) in the Lab of Food hygiene and food safety control center of the National Institute of Nutrition.
After the Renovation, Vietnam’s economy has been developing rapidly. As the results, Vietnamese people’s diets have also been improved. To assess the change on Hanoi outskirt citizens’ diets, a study “Household dietary changes after 6 years (1999 - 2005) in 6 communes of Dong anh district, Hanoi” was conducted in May and June, 2005 and compared with data in 1999.
Metabolic syndrome includes a number of disorders related to abdominal overweight, cardiovascular diseases (hypertension, reduced HDL-cholesterol, increased blood triglyceride) and increased blood glucose. In the survey of 2008, we have recognized the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in HCM city was 17% with the fast increasing speed especially in the urban area-by 150% in 5 years (12% in 2003 vs. 18% in 2008).
Tay Nguyen Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology carried out investigation on pesticide residue in green vegetables at two cities and two towns in 4 provinces of Tay Nguyen. The results showed that: Green vegetables with pesticide residue have the average rate of 61.20%, the rate of samples having pesticide residue with excess of the allowable criterion was 6.8%.